Shellfish Gathering and Shell Midden Archaeology

Loco or no Loco? Holocene Climatic Fluctuations, Human Demography, and Community Based Management of Coastal Resources in Northern Chile

“…both weights and MNIs has attracted criticism with discussion mostly focused on the validity of such approaches in providing unambiguous measures for the representation of taxa within a given assemblage (see Waselkov, 1987;Erlandson, 1994;Mason et al, 1998;Álvarez et al, 2011;Faulkner, 2011;Habu et al, 2011;Rick and Waselkov, 2015). Glassow, however, stated that "neither MNI nor weight proportions, is a universal unit of analysis for addressing the various questions about human predation on shellfish that archeologists frequently ask" (Glassow, 2000, p. 412).…”

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“…When offered choices, they select a variety of items over a greater quantity of their favorite food (addessi et al, 2010). this chapter represents for me something of a rebirth as a coastal archaeologist. after dissertation research on a Potomac river oyster midden and publication of a worldwide review of shellfish gathering and shell midden archaeology (Waselkov, 1987), my career took a decades-long detour into the ethnohistory of southeastern north america and the archaeology of french colonists and historic Creek indians. When an opportunity arose a few years ago to do some developerfunded investigations of Woodland shell middens on the alabama coast, i felt akin to rip van Winkle reawakening to a world changed greatly in the interim.…”

Uso Y Explotaciã“n De Los Recursos Acuãticos Por El Hombre Pre-Moderno: El Caso De África

“…Osborn, 1977;Waselkov, 1987) por ser menos productivos que las alternativas terrestres. Ante este escenario académico el trabajo de Harris et al, (1987) junto al de Stewart (1994), que expondré a continuación, supusieron un impulso innovador en el ám-bito teórico, ya que plantearon modelos y estrategias de subsistencia relacionadas con la bús-queda y explotación de los recursos acuáticos de hace 2,3 o 2 Ma en un panorama investigador (compárense las fechas referidas) donde los estudios dietéticos (e.g.…”